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ephi, lag and responsiveness are issues with regular averages but this principle works well with some of the more adaptive MA's. For example, Jurik, etc. set to 4 periods on a low timeframe ndx chart gets flat quickly enough to be useful in algorhythmic trading. Have you looked at Joe Ross's definitions of congestion found in Law of the Charts book(s)? These are also easily coded. hth, zdo

no arrows available... most simple way is to use point or cross in the style tab when you format your indicator...hth

ephi, What platform are you using? zdo

Yes, using EJ as example 'Bucket shops' spread ~ 3+ ECN 3,4,5 even 6+

This is a messed up poll no doubt Yes the 2000 in the title should be 20000 and the date in the poll should be 1/1/10 and BlowFish as far as skewed goes - highly probable! This poll deserves labels like skewed, eclectic, elliptic, eccentric and ... Nov 5, 08 %'s 61 no way 28 11 0 highly probable

Yep - I reverted back to 'normal' platform / chart setups last Thursday at around noon for indexes... what a wonderful couple months it has been...

This isn't exactly FX related but since they are all so coupled up lately - “The Volatility Index is at an important "Pivot Point". Yesterday, it closed on a critical 4 week support line... time to pay close attention to what happens on the VIX. ...VIX has a correlation with the daily amount of Institutional Buying and Selling and more specifically ... the SPREAD distance between the two that occurs. So, the VIX's action will also be an indirect reflection of Institutional activity in the next two days…” Marty Chenard Imo, the 'nervous breakdown' is not over, but the patient may be settling down enough to move from the crisis unit over to the regular psyche ward... don't be surprised by occasional episodic exacerbations though...

For future reference - re: when and if it seems that you do require that, check out Voice Dialogue originated by Hal and Sidra Stone - plenty of good innovative facilitators down in your neck of the woods... re It's best to have some help getting at least the main players with strong voices and a quorum of the 'disowned' 'selves' (don't particularily like the 'selves' term but...) mapped / into awareness. Once these and their relationships (bondings, bindings, etc) are cleared, then you are ready to go on your own with the many 'selves' (liking that term less and less) that have no 'voice' and never will have voice ... all the best zdo

Soultrader, Was not discouraging healthy growth at all ... but the flood of Internet Marketing groupies shocked me

Ok even if only one noob benefits it would be worthwhile...but my guess though is that not one single noob would get something transferrable. Enjoyable yes... inspirational yes... but truly helpful - don't think so. Noob's time needs to be spent in his own real world, not watching someone else on a simulator... Generally applying principles doesn't work well in trading because every tweak to any system actually renders it a wholly new system with the need to reconfigure position management, risk management, sizing management parameters. etc. - so a noob who transfers boostrap's modes to his own even a slightly different system is going to get hosed... to a significantly different type of system and he's freakin' doomed for sure. If you were to invite noobs to trade along with you with this, the most important thing they will learn is it's better not to to wear someone else's pants (for all kinds of reasons ) So they would learn - but not optimally. Most would drop off some of them actually damaged... but again even if one benefits I guess it would be worthwhile All the best, zdo

Volume at its most basic is used as an indicator of activity Beyond that you can get into interpreting it in context for indications of supply and demand patterns On this forum, the Wycoff threads moderated by dbPhoenix are a good place to start... links to the books and resources found therein From there, go to the VSA threads... and also links to the books and resources found therein I know there are several other volume pattern nuggets on TL but not remembering any specifics right now hth

James, Did we just get re-directed to Mark Joyner? Actually it looks like a potentially wonderful communty with great potential and I wish them all the best and prosperity BUT that whole direction needs to be a separate deal, separate domain, separate world... please Thanks for your consideration zdo

... and of course there is always Paxil

:spam: Some combination of Mindfullness meditation - (going into deeper awareness of the fears instead of avoiding them) Sedonna Method (Dwoskin book) Full contact martial arts training (or Japanese sword. In any event get in even better shape physically - both strength and wind) Kunlun EFT Neurofeedback or brainwave entrainment should get you going in the right direction energetically... then you can more easily deal with your own personal set of cognitive errors

"guessing the answer is..." My answer would be no :\ In the long run I would suggest that you would be better off keeping it between you and your partners... As far as helping other forum members via such a demo, everyone already knows it is generally possible. But, just because one individual can and may do it does not mean the next trader tracking his progress or history can and will be able to do it or even learn anything that could be transferred to their own process bottom line from my perspective: the exercise's appeal is understandable - but mostly just ego's get helped or hurt with these kinds of demonstrations...

More than one of the 'talented' tape readers I had requested some teaching from over the years replied with "it can't be taught", or "I don't know how I could explain it to you". At first I thought they were just ducking out or being all proprietary, but over time I got to know one of them at other levels and now I believe them. Their savant brains see patterns in the flow of digits for which they can provide no verbal representation of to 'normals'... you probably haven't met one because there aren't many of them on the planet... Like most other trading niche skills, knowing the conditions in which to read / play is just as important as the skill itself.

jim, TradeStation...

Would you be surprised if the Dow ran up to near 20,000 within the next 14 months?

BF, It can be learned by anyone... but it is a 'skill position' - not everyone can be good at it and few can excel... as I posted elsewhere tapereading requires 1 a certain aptitude / talent . It doesn’t require extreme ‘autism’ but it does require a natural degree of ‘savant’ 2 a natural fascination / attraction to it 3 then a lot of screen time and development of execution skills (4 and most likely, to be an adept at it, it requires an early start at it in one’s career – a la Tiger Woods ) These days, with programmable graphing capabilities, ‘visual tape reading’ is becoming more feasible. ie one does not have to be a digits freak to ‘tape read’ http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f34/tape-reading-watching-for-price-rejection-85.html

Dear ADHD ADBG Try Chick Goslin's Intelligent Futures Trading: Day by Day - not for his specific techniqes but to get inside his head a little bit about how to thrive at this game and to lay down some good 'fundamental skills' early in your development zdo

FF, I believe you can get a trial of the product (and trial version may be slightly crippled btw). Join the Transparent forum and download it from there. It's called DTZM and the forum and instructions show you how to 'step' through the phases like the Holosynch's ...but you may need to be a registered NP owner first... don't know... I would advise most to start with NeuroProgrammer. But for some, their next step up - MindWorkStation - may be the ticket because you can incorporate (limited) biofeedback with sessions. btw - I got nothing against Bill Harris or Holosynch products at all. He's a great human being! It's like with trading systems though, very few of the purchasers are going to be a natural fit - so why spend all that money when you can trial it for a lot less and also have a tool in NP to work on many other things as well. hth, zdo

Hi, re "binaural beats " yes you can do binaurals but for some applications that is passe' re Holosync. A user has done a great deal of research and has created "Deeper Than A Zen Monk" downloadable which with the bells he recommends is technically and aesthetically a freakn facsmile of Holosync - at a savings of almost $2000.00 USD re 'hynosis' It comes with a bunch of built in sessions - including hypnosis induction like Trading Mind to which you can easily add your own scripts using your own voice, a text to speech voice, or a friend who has a 'hypnotic' voice... I find running a variety of sessions is best for me - like physical workout 3 times a week whether I 'need' it or not... From the provided sessions or from scratch, you can modify them to do just about any entrainment (or 'untrainment', btw) frequencies you want. Excellent online community - both technically and 'growthfully' got gamma? zdo

When it first came out, I loved the concept of Trading Mind. However I found the content of the suggestions to be so lame and limiting that I sent them back... Bang for the buck, I have found no product out there that beats NeuroProgrammerX.x by Transparent Corp. (ps - am a consumer only, have no commercial or ... yada yada) All the best, zdo

After a few months of banging head against the same type of issues, did a major re-write of everything to do market orders only in TS automation - no limit orders no stop orders - entry or exit. The next, (quite enjoyable, btw) challenge was to engineer enough 'positive' slippage (loose with terminology) to compensate for new slippage issues that arose with market orders. hth

bootstrap, Maybe my question wasn't clear. I wasn't confusing 'Psychology' with Money Management. Psychology is not on your list / sequences. The gurus have been saying ‘edge’ first / ‘fears’ last. My question was - if Psychology was on your new list, where would it go? thx zdo